Dulci-More
Notes
October 2004
Volume 11, Number 2
Updated
Bill Staines Concert
on Wednesday, November 3
Bill Staines will
appear in concert in the Sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church of
Salem starting at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, November 3, 2004. The event is being
presented by Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians. For more information
contact Bill Schilling at 330-332-4420 or at bill@billschilling.org.
Tickets at the door
are $10 per person and a total of $5 for all the children in a family.
Refreshments provided by Dulci-More members will be available during an
intermission. Many of Bill’s recordings and books will be available at the
concert including Journey Home, a new CD released this year and The
Tour, the memoir released shortly after he was with us in 2003, which
some of you pre-ordered then and have already read.
For over 30 years,
Bill Staines has traveled back and forth across North America, singing his
songs and delighting audiences at festivals, folksong societies, colleges,
concerts, clubs and coffeehouses. A New England native, Bill became involved
with the Boston-Cambridge folk scene in the early 1960's and, for a time,
emceed the Sunday hootenanny at the renowned Club 47 in Cambridge. Bill quickly
became a popular performer in the Boston area. In 1971, after one of his
performances, a reviewer for The Phoenix stated that Bill was "simply
Boston's best performer". A decade later, both in 1980 and 1981, the
annual Reader's Poll of The Boston Globe selected him as a favorite
performer. In 1991, Bill entered his fourth decade as a folk performer with an
international reputation as an artist.
Singing mostly his
own songs, he has become one of the most popular singers on the folk circuit
today and averages around 200 concert dates a year. Bill weaves a gentle blend
of wit and gentle humor into his performances, and as one reviewer wrote "he
has a sense of timing to match the best stand-up comic." His music is
a slice of Americana, reflecting with the same ease, his feelings about the
prairie people of the Midwest or the adventurers of the Yukon.
Interspersed between
his own songs, Bill also includes songs ranging from traditional folk tunes to
more contemporary country ballads and delights in having the audience
participate in many of the numbers. He may even do a yodeling tune or two --
having won the National Yodeling Championship in 1975 at the Kerrville
Folk Festival in Kerrville, Texas.
A number of Bill's
songs have been recorded by other artists including Makem and Clancy, Nanci
Griffith, Mason Williams, Glen Yarborough, Jerry Jeff Walker, Grampa Jones,
Priscilla Herdman and others. Bill has recorded twenty-three of his own albums,
seventeen of which are still in print. Additionally, Bill's songs have been
published in four songbooks: If I Were a Word, Then I'd Be a Song,
River, Music to Me, The Songs of Bill Staines
and All God's Critters Got A Place In The Choir. Bill has also
published a memoir, The Tour.
Radio and TV
appearances have included A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage,
The Good Evening Show and a host of local programs on PBS and network
TV. Bill continues to drive over 65,000 miles a year, doing what he loves,
bringing music to people.
As I said last year,
“Reschedule or cancel choir practices and meetings. Bring everyone along.” Your
friends will thank you if you bring them out. Post the included flyer in a
store, church, or workplace. Download an Adobe PDF flyer for the Bill Staines Concert here.
A Great Time at 23rd
Northeast Dulcimer Symposium
For
those musicians who enjoy music, meeting new people, making new friends, and
just plain relaxing for a week, you might want to consider participating next year
in the Northeast Dulcimer Symposium at Blue Mountain Lake in the beautiful
Adirondack Mountains of New York. Classes are supposed to be 12 or under,
however our hammered dulcimer class had 14. Most of the participants in this
June's symposium had attended previously, with many of them attending many
times before. So if you are interested, you should get your deposit into David
Moore as soon as the word is out in January or February.
There were about 40
registered for the symposium, some of them the students and teachers and some
of them non-participating spouses. Yes, my Ken was one of those
non-participants, but he had such a good time and enjoyed Mary Jo's Lang's
cooking so much that he wants to go back.
The teachers were
great this year. Robert Force came in from the west coast to teach mountain
dulcimer, Mary McLaughlin (from Scotland, but lives in the US) taught singing
and led get-acquainted kinds of games to get everyone started having fun,
Andrea Hogg taught fiddle, (she is really good), Ken Lovelett (who has his own
drum designs on the market) taught percussion in the mornings and led an
improvisational workshop in the afternoon, Dwaine Wilder had his usual dulcimer
building class, Quintoin Stephens worked with newer folks on the MD, and best of
all, our friend, Madeline MacNeil, taught HD.
We arrived on
Saturday, had a wonderful dinner and get acquainted time on the huge porch at
the Blue Mountain Inn. Ken and I were assigned to a room at the Inn. There were
about 5 other rooms at the inn where others were assigned. The rest including
the teachers stayed in the cabins down by the lake. It was within easy walking
distance from the Inn. Everyone was responsible for their breakfast and lunch,
then wine and hors d'ouevres were served at 5:30 and fantastic dinners were at
6. We each had to sign up to help either set up or cleanup for one meal during
the week.
On
Sunday morning we reported to our classes at 9 AM. Dulcimer-making and MD's
went to the art center which is next to the Inn, fiddlers met in the living
room at the Inn, and our HD's went up the road to a brand new building with
beams, fireplace, and hardwood floors. Maddie was waiting with her usual big
smile and before long we had new music and were hard at work. She knew many of
us are interested in playing music with multiple parts, so made arrangements
for any who wanted to come at 8 AM the rest of the week to work on that kind of
music. Almost everyone came from 8 AM to 12 the rest of the week. She was a
great teacher, passing on so many of her techniques and 20 or more pieces of
music. Everyone was in tears the last day as she sang a special song of hers
'just for us' - Over the Rainbow. Wow!
There
were concerts by the instructors at the art center stage on Sunday night,
burning of the winter solstice effigy one evening — bag pipes and all, a river
boat ride another night (with lots of thunder and lightning), plane rides on
Wednesday afternoon, at least three bear sightings, trail hikes to waterfalls,
visits to the magnificent Adirondack Museum just one mile up the road, and of
course, jams and more jams.
It's great to share
this special week with everyone. Ken and I were the only ones from Ohio, but
three gals there from PA had been to our Dulci-More Festival 10 in May. They
were all in my HD class. It was great getting to know them better. I would hope
that others in Dulci-More will also share their experiences from the festivals
and retreats they attend. There are so many opportunities our there to enrich
and help us grow in our music. Let's hear from you.
Updates for
Dulci-More Membership List
The enclosed roster
(only with hard copies of member newsletters) is intended only for the personal
use of our members and friends (not for telemarketing, mass mailings, spam,
etc.). Figuring that many people may have misplaced the ones from January, the
whole list is here rather than just updates with the newst members. Post it
where you can keep track of it and use it as needed.
No Regular Meeting in
Salem on November 16
As noted in the
Upcoming Performances section below, we will be doing a performance on Tuesday,
November 16. Those who attend may stay for more music and our regular type of
meeting at that location (the Damascus United Methodist Church), but we will
not be meeting at the First United Methodist Church of Salem at 7:00 PM then.
Also, please note
the change from free dinners for our members to very reasonably priced dinners
for our members at the Damascus United Methodist Church and make a notation in
the signup book or by contacting Bernie Blair whether you choose to pay $5 for
dinner or not to have the dinner so that we know how many dinners to order.
Potluck Jam
We are planning the
next Potluck Jam for Sunday, November 7 starting at 2 PM in the
Fellowship Hall of the First United Methodist Church of Salem, 244 South
Broadway, Salem, OH 44460. As usual, we’ll hope that some of our members from
farther away will be able to join us that day and that many of our regulars
will be there as well. We’ll play and sing as late as people are there, but
we’ll break to share a potluck dinner at about 5 PM. Bring some food to share
(we don’t assign salads, entrees, desserts, and so on, but we usually are lucky
enough to get a good variety of everything). You can bring your own table
service if you think that the styrofoam police might be watching, but we always
have some paper, plastic, and styrofoam on hand for those who want it. Some
member usually volunteers to take care of coffee and punch (we’ll accept a
volunteer any time before the event).
As usual when we get
together, we jam, learn, listen, or perform. It’s great to have individuals or
small groups do things for the rest of us in addition to selections from our
usual songbook or challenges for everyone to try something we don’t usually do.
If you can’t be there for the full day, come when you can and leave when you
need to. A table will be available for musical swap and sale items. It’s also a
great time to check out the remaining stock of T-shirts, sweat shirts, caps,
and tote bags from previous festivals.
Upcoming Performances
Tuesday, November 16
would usually be a regular meeting night for us, but we will not meet at the
First United Methodist Church of Salem on that evening. Instead, we will be
playing for the Damascus Historical Society at the Damascus United
Methodist Church. However, those who sign up ahead of time are also invited to
take part in the dinner at a reduced rate of $5 per person rather than the
regular $10 per person before we play (this is their big fund raiser for the
year, and paying for all of our dinners would cut heavily into what they would
have to work with for the society, but giving us a reduced rate will make
things viable for everyone). Dinner is scheduled for 6:30 PM, and we will play
at about 7:30 PM. After we are done with our performance, we will be able to
continue playing and have our meeting at the Damascus United Methodist Church
(although we may need to wait for the Historical Society to have their meeting
before we go ahead). Since her sister asked us to play for the meeting, Bernie
Blair will be taking care of making dinner reservations. Make sure to update
if you will pay $5 for dinner (or if you no longer want the dinner) in the
signup book or with Bernie.
The first request
for a holiday program came very early in the year, but we didn’t confuse the
sign-up book by putting it in right away. It is for Thursday, December 9 at
7:30 PM for the Damascus Ruritan Club in Murphy Hall at Copeland Oaks in
Sebring (that’s 800 South 15th Street). Murphy Hall is not the one by the
Chapel in the main building on entering the facility, but is rather the one
near the swimming pool. From the front entrance of Copeland, turn right and
then left beside Crandall Medical Center and past the parking deck on the right
and the parking lot and section of the building with Murphy Hall will be
somewhere back there on the left.
Newly added is
another of our regular Essex II performances on Friday, December 10 at
3:00 PM. The Essex facility is on the east side of Salem behind Loudon Ford on
Continental Drive. The entrance for II and for III is just across from TSC
(Tractor Supply Company). III is closer to the street. We will be in II which
is farther from Continental.
The last one up for
the year will be for the new First Night Salem, the non-alcoholic
family-oriented New Year’s Eve Celebration that has been in many communities
for several years and has now found its way to Salem. They would like a couple
of performances (currently scheduled for 7:00-7:45 PM and 9:00-9:45 PM, but
still subject to change) from us in their Americana venue which will probably
be in the Sanctuary (or Fellowship Hall) at the First United Methodist Church
of Salem on Friday, December 31. There will be many other venues with various
music and other activities all around Salem that evening, and it would be great
to be in on this from the start if there are enough of us that can break away
from other things that we might usually do on New Year’s Eve. Members
participating will get a button allowing them to enjoy the rest of the
festivities.
Recent Performances
Ancient history
takes us back to the beginning of the year. Bill got very lazy about putting
out newsletters when only one submission came in from a member during the time
these nine months that should have seen three newsletters, but only have this
one. Some folks have volunteered repeatedly to help with mailings once one is
finally done, but your articles would make it seem to Bill more like it is
something that you would like to see regularly.
Our first performance
of the year was at Essex II on Friday, January 23 at 3:00 PM. Bill
Schilling, Steph Lyon, Lois Mountz, Norma Firth, Pat Trickett, Jan Douglass,
Joyce Strohecker, and Charley & Martha Bell were on hand for that one.
It was great to be
able to use the Kent Salem Lecture Hall for our Dulci-More 11th Anniversary
Concert on Thursday, February 5 at 7:00 PM. The ice storm caused us to cut
a few songs from the program to try to get everyone safely home. The Dulci-More
Little Eagles joined us for their first public performance. There were 10
Little Eagles directed by Norma Firth and joined by their other instructors and
all Dulci-More members for one song. Our members included Norma, Marty Becker,
Pat Trickett, Cindy Wallace, Barbara Jones (first time playing out with us),
Chris Lydic, Velma Lydic, Steph Lyon, Jim Miller, Lois Mountz, Joyce
Strohecker, Janet Harriman, Jan Douglass, Lydia Bartholow, Randy Davis, Leanna
Mathes, and Bill Schilling. Several special numbers were done including a
hammered dulcimer solo by Janet Harriman; a recorder/flute ensemble with Janet
and her daughter Jessica, Steph, and Bill; a hammered dulcimer ensemble with
Lois, Jan, Janet, and Joyce; Songs with Guitars by Bill, Leanna, Lydia, and
Randy.
The Winter Folk
Song Festival of the Canton Folk Song Society was on Saturday, February 21
from 1:00-5:00 PM, and many Dulci-More members played as part of other groups
as well as playing with Dulci-More. The list of those signed up to play with us
included Bill Schilling, Jan Douglass, Leanna Mathes, Lois Mountz, Betty
Onyett, Mike Hill, and Fanella Lang. Memory and guesses suggest that Christina
Kambrick, Sue Wheeler, Roz Wilson, Alma Houston, Donna Johnston, Mary & Rod
Thompson, and Steven & Gretchen Dinin may also have been part of the group.
On Friday, February
27 at 1:30 PM, Lydia Bartholow, Joyce Strohecker, Lois Mountz, Bill Schilling,
Norma Firth, Cindy Wallace, Leanna Mathes, Don & Bernie Blair, Charley
& Martha Bell, and Doris Tolley played for the MRDD in Lisbon.
Jennifer Harriman
helped set up a performance for us at the Alliance Community Care Center
on Friday, March 19 at 1:30 PM. Those playing and singing included Bill
Schilling, Betty Onyett, Lois Mountz, Jennifer and Janet Harriman, Don &
Bernie Blair, and Charley & Martha Bell.
Bill Schilling, Lois
Mountz, Leanna Mathes, Don Blair, Chris Lydic, Velma Lydic, Doris Tolley, and
Mike Grant (in his fist time playing out with us, although he had played with
us at his church previously) were at Essex I on Tuesday, March 23 at
7:15 PM.
The Tri-State
Antique Auto Club had us come out to the Smith Grange to play for them on
Saturday, April 24 at 7:30 PM. There were many good comments that evening and
later on about the performance by Bill Schilling, Don & Bernie Blair, Janet
& Jennifer Harriman, Lois Mountz, Leanna Mathes, Norma Firth, Doris Tolley,
Marty Becker, and Chris Lydic.
We did performances
at Goshen Elementary and 5th Street Beloit Elementary in the West
Branch School District arranged by Chris Lydic on Tuesday, May 11 at 1:15 and
2:30 PM. Both groups of students were enthusiastic audiences that joined along
with us very well. Our members were Bill Schilling, Marty Becker, Lois Mountz,
Don Blair, Chris Lydic, Velma Lydic, Betty Onyett, and Charley & Martha
Bell.
During Roscoe Village
Dulcimer Days, we again played for the Clubs Showcase and the Dulci-More
Gospel Sing. The first was on Friday, May 14 at 7:00 PM and the other was
on Sunday, May 16 at 9:45 AM. I think those playing during the showcase
included Bill Schilling, Pat Carnahan, Sue Sabatino, Sue Wheeler, Jan Douglass,
Linda Sigismondi, Alice & Earl Whitehill, Steven & Gretchen Dinin, and
Connie and Gene Johnson. The list shows that Bill Schilling, Barbara Jones,
Chris Lydic, Velma Lydic, Lois Mountz, Jean & Norm Oyster, Jim McNatt, Earl
& Alice Whitehill, Jan Douglass, and Sue Wheeler were joined on stage by
Marty Rodabaugh, Lynn Holberton, Theresa Halsley, and at least one other as we
led the gospel sing.
We played for the District
Lay Leaders Dinner at the Damascus United Methodist Church on Friday, May
21 at 7:00 PM (although most of us joined them for dinner at 6:00 PM. Our group
included Bill Schilling, Chris Lydic, Lois Mountz, Janet Harriman, Betty
Onyett, Leanna Mathes, Don & Bernie Blair, Mike Grant, Doris Tolley, Marty
Becker, Velma Lydic, Norma Firth, Helen Shivers, and Jack & Bommie Lutz.
At our own Dulci-More
Festival 10, we did the opening sets for each of the evening concerts this
year. Many of our members from all over were able to join us on stage for one,
two or all three of those performances. Many gave workshops. Even more
volunteered with kitchen duties, registration, set up, clean up, working with
the Dulci-More Little Eagles, and much more to make our most successful
festival yet. Almost all seem to have been in on the conspiracy that is
mentioned in the Wondering-Wanderings column. I want to thank everyone for all
they did to make the festival such a success, but I don’t have a list of all
the volunteer duties, and nobody else has submitted that information for the
newsletter. It was great to have you on stage with me and doing so many things
that I know about or can’t even begin to think of that let us have such an
excellent festival. Thank You!
A good number of us
headed all the way to Burton Century Village on Saturday, June 5 to play from
3:00-4:30 PM at the Brigadoon Celtic Festival. We followed Silent Lion
under the Pavilion with Bill Schilling, Leanna Mathes, Lois Mountz, Don & Bernie
Blair, Sue Sabatino, Pat Carnahan, Charley Bell, and Earl Brubacher.
We played for Essex
II on Friday, June 11 at 3:00 PM with Bill Schilling, Lois Mountz, Jan
Douglass, Don Blair, Charley Bell, Steph Lyon, and Joyce Strohecker.
Next we played for the
Alliance Area Retired Teachers Association at the YWCA in Alliance on
Friday, June 18. Most joined them for their noon luncheon, and we played
following that with Bill Schilling, Betty Onyett, Don & Bernie Blair, Lois
Mountz, Bonnie & Jack Lutz, and Norma Firth. Betty Onyett even made the
most of the day by becoming a new member of the group as she greeted any
long-time friends.
On Sunday, July 25
at 12:30 PM, we played for the Alliance Art Show by Mount Union Lake
near the Mountz Gallery booth. Playing that afternoon were Lois Mountz, Don
& Bernie Blair, Helen Shivers, Earl Brubacher, Lydia Bartholow, Jim Miller,
Bill Schilling, Mike Hill, Fanella Lang, and Jim McNatt.
On Friday, August
27, we returned to Essex II at 3:00 PM. Our list shows that we had Jim
McNatt, Don Blair, Norma Firth, Lois Mountz, Helen Shivers, Jack & Bonnie
Lutz, Velma Lydic, Chris Lydic, and Bill Schilling.
Another of our usual
big attendance events is playing at the Canfield Fair. This year we were
in the Gazebo behind the Floral and Fine Arts Building 7-9 PM on Friday,
September 3 and 3:30-5:30 PM on Monday, September 6 (Labor Day holiday). The
list shows that several members played both days. They were Bill Schilling,
Jack & Bonnie Lutz, Mike Hill, Fanella Lang, Lois Mountz, Leanna Mathes,
John Grantonic, Earl Brubacher, Lydia Bartholow, Don & Bernie Blair, and
Christina Kambrick. Also there on Friday were Chris Lydic, Helen Shivers, Velma
Lydic, and Lisa McKee. With us only on Monday were Alma Houston and Roz Wilson.
We did an evening
performance at the First Baptist Church of Louisville on Sunday,
September 12 at 6 PM. Our vice-president, Pat Trickett, is a member there and
arranged this one. It was part of an evening worship service, and we were the
major part of that. The congregation joined in enthusiastically for most of the
songs (with many old hymns). We got to hear their children’s choir as well.
Playing that evening were Bill Schilling, Pat Trickett, Chris Lydic, Jack &
Bonnie Lutz, Leanna Mathes, Helen Shivers, Don & Bernie Blair, Linda
Miller, Earl Brubacher, Carolyn Caskey, Marty Becker, and possibly Velma Lydic
while Roz Wilson called for directions too late to get to the church on time.
The Algonquin
Mill Fall Festival is another one of our usual yearly performances that
many of our members like to play for. This year it was on Saturday, October 9,
and we were asked to play at our usual 10-11 AM time slot. Our list of members
who made it to the stage included: Bill Schilling, Pat Trickett, Chris Lydic,
Roz Wilson, Pat Carnahan, Leanna Mathes, Don & Bernie Blair, Steph Lyon,
Norma Firth, Helen Shivers, Earl Brubacher, Steve & Sue Wheeler, Velma
Lydic, Marty Becker, Christina Kambrick, Alma Houston, and Donna Johnston.
We played again for
the second annual Mount Union Nature Center Barn Party on Saturday,
October 9 at 7:00 PM. Karen Santee has already indicated that she would like us
back again next year. Members playing were Don & Bernie Blair, Carolyn
Caskey, Fanella Lang, Betty Onyett, Leanna Mathes, Earl Brubacher, Joyce
Strohecker, Janet & Jennifer Harriman, and Bill Schilling. Audience members
joined in well on most songs.
Dulci-More Festival
11
The Performer
Selection Committee has been meeting and has given Bill some direction for
contacting performers for appear in the evening concerts for the festival. Bill
has made some of the contacts and is still trying to figure out how to make
some of them. Some performers have already agreed to be at the festival. As the
committee continues to meet, other performers for evening concerts will be
contacted, and the mini-concert performer choices will be made and those people
will be contacted.
At least one vendor
has already been in touch about being back with us next year, and festivals.com
has checked on the date.
Mark your calendars
for May 27-29 (and even on into the morning of May 30 for late night jamming or
clean-up) and make your plans to join us at Scout Camp McKinley (already
booked) for Dulci-More Festival 11!
Canton Folk Song
Society
Scheduled meetings
of the Canton Folk Song Society for the upcoming months include November 20,
and December 11 (Saturdays). Meetings are really just song circles with the
only business usually conducted being to schedule future meetings (and the
Winter Folk Song Fest). They are from 1-3 PM at the McKinley Museum, 800
McKinley Monument Drive, NW, Canton, OH. Those coming to play and/or sing
should let them know at the door so that they can waive the admission charge
and direct you to where we are playing (generally in the cabin on the Street of
Shops).
Dulcimer Society of
Trumbull County
The Dulcimer Society
of Trumbull County continues to meet from 6-8 PM on the second Monday of each
month at the First United Methodist Church of Warren, 309 North Park in Warren.
The meetings have been small and informal with some jamming, some teaching, and
some showcasing. Acoustic folk instruments and vocalists are always welcome.
Southeast Ohio
Dulcimer Festival
The third annual
Southeast Ohio Dulcimer Festival will be held on Saturday, November 13 at the Old
School in Stewart, Ohio. The evening concert at 7:00 PM will feature Tina
Bergmann and Bryan Thomas as well as Tull Glazener. Many artists and vendors
familiar to Dulci-More members (including Bill Schilling) will do workshops and
mini-concerts from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM. An all festival pass is $35 in advance and
$40 at the door with lesser amounts for just part of the activities.
Information is available at www.jcrmusic.com/festival.html.
Kent State Folk
Festival
It’s time for the
38th Kent State Folk Festival. As the second oldest folk festival on a college
campus, it’s well worth attending. There are many concert artists, events, and
venues to choose from over two weekends, Friday and Saturday, November 12 &
13, and Thursday through Saturday, November 18-20. Go to www.kentstatefolkfestival.org
to get loads of information. The free Workshops are on the third floor of the
student center and in the Kiva from noon to 5 PM on Sat., Nov 20. Doc Watson
with his grandson, Richard Watson and David Holt will be in the Kent State
Ballroom that evening at 8 PM. That will be followed by a new after hours party
at the Ramada Inn (Akron/Kent) with Steppin’ In It. Folk Alley Round Town will
have various artists in small venues around Kent and Folknet sponsoring Pat
Donohue at the Kent Stage. Also at the Kent Stage on Thurs., Nov. 18 will be
Jesse Winchester and Karla Bonoff, on Sat., Nov. 13 will be Roomful of Blues
and Wallace Coleman Band, and on Fri., Nov 12 will be Sam Bush and Vienna Teng.
Prices vary from free to $25 or more for events. Tickets are available in
various locations for different concerts. Check the web site for details.
Other
Festivals & Events
Bill has information available on some other festivals, events, and
camps coming up. Check with him for more information about them.
Third
Tuesday Workshops
No third Tuesday workshops are currently scheduled. Suggestions to make
them useful and interesting to our members would be appreciated by members of
the Executive Committee.
Folknet
Events
Folknet rescheduled Pat Donahue (who was not able to make it to a March
Concert for Folknet at Happy Days Visitor’s Center) to be a part of the Kent
State Folk Festival and the Folk Alley Round Town Performances when he appears
on Fiday, November 19 at 8:00 PM at the Kent Stage. Find out more at www.folknet.org.
Mountain
Rose Events
The Mountain Rose Concert Series at the Roy Smith Shelter of the Fred
Fuller Park in Kent usually happens on the second Sunday of the month October
through May at 7:15 PM for a $7 donation. Upcoming concerts include: Lisa &
Heather Malyuk and Graham Weber on November 14, Chris Wig and George Foley on
December 12, and Silent Lion and Brick Road Ramblers on January 9. Check www.mountainroseconcerts.org.
They also sponsor the Just Plain Folk show which is now
on Tuesdays from 8-10 PM on WAPS 91.3 FM which includes live performances each
week from guests in the studio along with recordings from various artists
(including many who have been and/or will be at Dulci-More Festivals). For
those who can’t pick up the signal over the air waves, try getting it on the
web in real time at www.wapsfm.com.
Kent
Stage Events
The Kent Stage is the old theater building in downtown Kent at 175 East
Main Street run by Western Reserve Folk Arts Association. Upcoming events
include: James Keelaghan and Hugh MacMillan on Thursday, October 28, Big Leg
Emma on Friday, October 29, The Pete Best Band on Saturday, October 30, Sam
Bush on Friday, November 12, Roomful of Blues on Saturday, November 13, Carla
Bonoff and Jesse Winchester on Thursday, November 18, Pat Donahue on Friday,
November 19 (Folknet’s contribution to Folk Alley and the Kent State Folk
Festival), Bo Diddley on Friday, December 3, Peter Rowan and Tony Rice with
Slaid Cleaves on Saturday, December 4, Brian Henke’s Woodchopper’s Ball on
Sunday, December 5, and Melanie on Friday, December 10. Advance tickets are
generally $15-$20, and tickets at the door are generally $18-$25. Check www.kentstage.org.
Calliope
Events
Calliope presents concerts at the Carnegie Lecture Hall on Forbes
Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Upcoming are Doc Watson and David
Holt on Friday, November 19, David Bromberg on Saturday, December 11, Sheila
Kay Adams on Saturday, January 22, Alvin Youngblood Hart on Saturday, February
12, Karan Casey Band on Saturday, March 12, and the Waybacks on Saturday, April
16. They also have a variety of other activities. Find out more at www.calliopehouse.org.
Wondering-Wanderings
I have been wondering for years why I don’t do
more wandering in the autumn as suggested by that favorite Joni Mitchell song, The Urge for Going, so this October I
finally am doing so with a fall foliage trip to New England (and over 750
photos on the new digital camera that the donations from so many of you allowed
me to get), a visit with Maddie in the Shenandoah Valley, and trips to Avella.
In a new venture, I’ve been working with the
Tudors at Weatherbury Farm in Avella to develop Folk Music on the Farm
Workshops that we are expecting to start this spring. Watch for information
with all the details and workshop leaders.
I worked hard for a while recently on a new
version of the Dulci-More Public domain Songbook with just lyrics and chords
that will be helpful to some, but it got sidetracked as other things reached
closer deadlines. I still hope to finish it soon.
A committee to review and revise the bylaws still needs to meet. The
intent was to do this before the elections in December, but it might not get
done and sent out to everyone before then. In any case, please be thinking
about becoming an officer or a member of the executive committee for 2005.
Looking way back, it was a great pleasure to
bring Susan Trump and Bryan Bowers to Salem again last spring. They shared so
much of themselves with us that we all went away enriched. Working with Dr. Ann
Waters and with Kent Salem, the Historical Society, the church and East Palestine
Elementary to make it all happen was great. Let’s support Bill Staines as we
try the sanctuary as a venue.
I was surprised, shocked, and overwhelmed by the
outpouring of love and the generous gift from friends near and far presented to
me on Sunday evening at Dulci-More Festival 10. I have looked through the
memory book several times and shared it with others. The description above
gives an idea of how much I am enjoying the digital camera. I regret to say
that I am still procrastinating about finding the best place to hang the
beautiful certificate (to Bill, In thanks and recognition of your effervescent
spirit, your love of music, your invaluable contribution to folk music, and
your constant devotion to helping folks find the music within themselves. Your
folk music family May 30, 2004) and plaque (Salem’s Own Mr. Music — Bill
Schilling — Thanks for all you do keeping music in our hearts — Salem United
Methodist Church — Dulci-More Festival 10 — 2004). After the wonderful
presentation by Jan Douglass, Pat Trickett, Bob Zentz, and the beautiful work
of Lois Mountz, the Dulci-More Little Eagles and so many others, I pulled
myself together enough to say the following that I wanted to share with those
of you who weren’t able to be there (I pulled this from the recording):
“I would just want to say that throughout it all
this has been an extreme joy for me. Every once in a while the late nights of
preparing a program might get to me a little bit, but the whole thing: working
with Dulci-More, working with Folknet, working with other groups like the
Canton Folk Song Society, the Dulcimer Society of Trumbull County, and
directing this festival, I do it as a joy. And my mother at times when I was
working on all of these things suggested to me that basically she saw this as
my way of having a mission, and I really appreciate and remember, you know,
that she was willing to let me do things that I needed to do when I needed to
do them, that I was able to move back in here to Salem where I thought that
this kind of community would be available, and would be possible, and I never,
when I came back and decided that that was the right direction for me to go and
that she let me do that, let me have a really cheap way of living so that I
could devote some energy to this type of thing, I never, ever dreamed that it
could result in something as magnificent as this, and so many people involved
so well. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”
Otherwise the Festival was the most successful
yet. Thanks to all who made it so!
Please distribute
and/or post the included concert flyer.
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Dulci-More: Folk
& Traditional Musicians
meets at 7:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month just off the sanctuary
by the Unity Classroom of the First United Methodist Church of Salem, 244 South
Broadway, Salem, OH 44460. All levels of acoustic instrumentalists and singers
are always welcome at our meetings to jam, to learn, to listen, or to perform.
Please check ahead if coming to a meeting or activity from far away since
performances or special meetings may be scheduled a few times a year on regular
meeting nights, and that will be so on Tuesday, November 16 when we will
perform and meet elsewhere.
Dulci-More
Notes is published
quarterly and may first be distributed to members at the first meeting of
January, April, July, and October and then mailed to other members and to
people or organizations on the mailing list. Information may be reproduced with
permission and credit. If you happen to view this as junk mail, let Bill
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Public Domain Songbook Volumes 1, 2, 3, & Christmas in 5.5” X 8.5”
size or General (including mostly DAA tab) or Autoharp (with melody chord
tab) Volumes in 8.5” X 11” size in loose leaf format from Bill
Schilling, 984 Homewood Avenue, Salem, OH 44460-3816; 330-332-4420; bill@dulcimore.org; http://billschilling.org or http://songbooks.billschilling.org.
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about Dulci-More and Dulci-More Festivals is available on-line and will often
be more up to date than a quarterly newsletter. URLs are http://dulcimore.org or http://festival.dulcimore.org or http://notes.dulcimore.org for the most recent
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